Israel-UN relations

NEW YORK — UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley and settlements in the West Bank if reelected would violate international law. “Such steps, if implemented, would constitute a serious violation of international law,” Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in…

The United Nations on Tuesday warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his plan to annex the Jordan Valley and settlements in the West Bank if reelected would have no “international legal effect.” Netanyahu earlier vowed to extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley shortly after forming a new government and…